Quote:By Dominic Evans

BEIRUT | Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:22pm EST


BEIRUT (Reuters) - A car bomb killed
more than 50 people and wounded 200 in central Damascus on Thursday when it blew
up on a busy highway close to ruling Baath Party offices and the Russian
Embassy, state media and activists said.
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John Mooney Wrote:In times of war you need a good poker face.

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U.S. Military Intelligence Involved in Chemical Attack in Syria

VOLTAIRE NETWORK | MOSCOW (RUSSIA) | 5 SEPTEMBER 2013

A photo taken by Marco di Lauro/AP in Iraq in 2003 was presented by US State Secretary Kerry on August 30, 2013 as evidence of "Assad's chemical attack."The situation in Syria is still in focus of the world media. Another U.S.-led "humanitarian intervention" may be unleashed soon. The Pentagon announced that it is ready to attack Syria in order to punish Bashar al-Assad and Syrian army for the alleged use of chemical weapons against the civilians.Meanwhile, the new evidence of the U.S. intelligence being involved in chemical attack near Damascus on August 21, 2013 has been leaked to Internet.A hacker got access to the U.S. intelligence correspondence and published private emails of Col. Anthony J. Macdonald, who is the General Staff Director, Operations and Plans Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence the US Army Staff.In an email exchange on August 22, 2013 with the US Army civilian analyst Eugene P. Furst congratulates Col. on successful operation and refers him to a Washington Postpublication about chemical attack in Syria.E.FURST: By the way, saw your latest success, my congratulations. Good job.A.MACDONALD: As you see, I'm far from this now, but I know our guys did their best.Another set of private correspondence between his wife Jeniffer MacDonald and Mary Shapiro reveals that colonel did not keep his mouth shut in the bedroom:M.SHAPIRO: I can't stop thinking about that terrible gas attack in Syria now. Did you see those kids? I was really crying- They were poisoned, they died. When is it over? I see their faces when in sleep. What did Tony say you about this?J.MACDONALD: I saw it too and got afraid very much. But Tony comforted me. He said the kids weren't hurt, it was done for cameras. So you don't worry, my dear.M.SHAPIRO: I'm still thinking about those Syrian kids. Thanks God, they are alive. I hope they got a kind of present or some cash.From Col. MacDonalds's wife dialog with her friend it's clear that the video with the children killed in the chemical attack near Damascus was staged by the U.S. Military Intelligence.This information sheds new light on the US administration's confession that "there were indications three days prior that an attack [on August 21] was coming".As Joseff Budansky from GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs wrote on Sunday:"On August 13-14, 2013, Western-sponsored opposition forces in Turkey started advance preparations for a major and irregular military surge. Initial meetings between senior opposition military commanders and representatives of Qatari, Turkish, and US Intelligence ["Mukhabarat Amriki"] took place at the converted Turkish military garrison in Antakya, Hatay Province, used as the command center and headquarters of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and their foreign sponsors. Very senior opposition commanders who had arrived from Istanbul briefed the regional commanders of an imminent escalation in the fighting due to "a war-changing development" which would, in turn, lead to a US-led bombing of Syria."According to the same source,On August 24, 2013, Syrian Commando forces acted on intelligence about the possible perpetrators of the chemical attack and raided a cluster of rebel tunnels in the Damascus suburb of Jobar. Canisters of toxic material were hit in the fierce fire-fight as several Syrian soldiers suffered from suffocation and "some of the injured are in a critical condition".The Commando eventually seized an opposition warehouse containing barrels full of chemicals required for mixing "kitchen sarin", laboratory equipment, as well as a large number of protective masks. The Syrian Commando also captured several improvised explosive devices, RPG rounds, and mortar shells. The same day, at least four Hizballah fighters operating in Damascus near Ghouta were hit by chemical agents at the very same time the Syrian Commando unit was hit while searching a group of rebel tunnels in Jobar. Both the Syrian and the Hizballah forces were acting on intelligence information about the real perpetrators of the chemical attack.The samples of toxic agents were reportedly sent to Moscow for a detailed analysis.Published data clearly indicate that the US administration is about to create any pretext to launch a military strike on Syria. Most recent revelation that the US Secretary of State John Kerry has used a photo taken in Iraq in 2003 to illustrate "Syrian victims of gas attack" last Friday to justify his bellicous message to the US Congressmen gives even more evidence that the "intelligence information" the warmongers claim to be based on is groundless or simply fabricated.Now the vast majority of people worldwide perfectly understand that a kind of tricky game is being played on their behalf. The British parliament has already met the demand of clearly expressed public opinion and opposed the suicidal war over Mediterranean. Will the US legislators show us the same prudence and common sense? We will see it next week.
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Oriental Review (Russia)

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CIA Using Direct Commercial Sales Program to Arm Jihadist Rebels in Syria

Tim King Salem-News.comIt has been revealed that the CIA was actively smuggling weapons to Syrian rebels as the attack on the Benghazi Embassy was waged.
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(OZARK, MO) - Most Americans had never even heard of Bashar al-Assad, Syria's President, until Obama started ranting about chemical weapons. I talk to people frequently who still can't identify him by name. They are often dumbfounded when they learn that this country has done little to deserve its wrath from the western powers, with the USA in the lead. The Syrian rebels are far from rational, they are a sect of Islam that does not seek peace, nor do they accept a secular government like Assad's where Christians and Muslims and Jews lived peacefully together. Like Libya and Iraq, Syria wasnot dominated by a religious zealot.
In spite of this, US President Barack Obama is aligning with these forces; tied to the Wahhabi Saudis - who believe women should walk in tent-like burqas and be punished for "crimes" like driving a car. The very worst elements of Islam are the friends of the United States. Now we learn definitively that the US is supplying weapons to the so-called Syrian "rebels" and continuing to endanger and destabilize Syria so that radicals who uphold Sharia law with stones and bullets can be in charge.
It has been revealed that the CIA was actively smuggling weapons to Syrian rebels as the attack on the Benghazi Embassy was waged.


(see:[B]http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/08/cia-was-smuggling-weapons-to-syrian-rebels-during-benghazi-embassy-attack/)
The problem is that Syria's President is not fully demonized, as Saddam Hussein and Usama bin Laden were. Both Bush presidencies were used to fully propagandize these figures into full-blown evil villains when in fact, both had worked closely with the US as allies in previous years. But then all Middle eastern, Latin American and African national leaders know friendship with the US is something that never lasts long.
"... The CIA has been delivering weapons to rebels in Syria over the past two weeks, with contributions of vehicles and other equipment from the State Department, The Washington Post is reporting.
U.S. officials are hoping the donations will boost the muscle of the rebel fighters in Syria's 2 1/2-year civil war, according to the Post, which cited "U.S. officials and Syrian figures."
The Post says the effort is aimed at supporting rebel Gen. Salim Idriss, commander of the Supreme Military Council, a faction of the fractured opposition. The Post said some of its sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because part of the initiative is covert. ...".
(see: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-begins-weapons-delivery-to-syrian-rebels/2013/09/11/9fcf2ed8-1b0c-11e3-a628-7e6dde8f889d_story.html?hpid=z2
The "Direct Sales Program" is a little known government program that has been underway for a number of years. Some of these weapons have been found in Syria as well as India and Libya.
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I don't think I've ever seen Hilary looking so severe.

Perhaps the words "kill.. kill them all.." are running through her head.

(I'm assuming that is Hilary and not Biden having a bad day.)